Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Two-speed coffeebreak
Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.
Cryptic clues ACROSS
1 Get a new entrance (4) 4 Carelessly tear standard (4) 6 Half a house (4)
8 It’s expensive, darling (4)
11 Ship, with hesitation, has problems (4)
13 Footballer refusing to work (7) 14 Meadow inside clearing (3) 16 Time to change mail’s language (5)
18 Reportedly have to use dough (5)
21 Pole running, daughter bounded (5)
22 Loafer relied on working
without energy (5)
24 Juicer contains
something cold (3)
25 Cracking safe,
Edward ate well (7)
28 Absurd lone Christmas (4)
30 Bird in another nest (4)
31 Swim with right weed (4)
32 Rage definitely gets old (4)
33 Betting journalist hurried (4)
DOWN
1 Exalted figures in the theatre (4)
2 New arts leader (4)
3 Change trees’ layout (5) 4 Trimmed around lip (3) 5 Terribly neat Sicilian site (4) 7 Painting of them Urals (5) 9 Moral about point being genetic (6)
10 Competitor has viral problem (5)
12 Fielder’s mistake (4)
15 Cricket team’s legs (6)
17 TV detective’s cipher (5)
19 Need to reorder garden (4)
20 Put off being freed — weird! (5)
23 Souvenir of pure
licentiousness (5)
24 In and around old empire (4)
26 Catch wrong part (4)
27 Action working both ways (4)
29 Not even peculiar (3)
Quick clues ACROSS
1 Portal (4)
4 Assess (4)
6 Type of house (4) 8 Precious (4) 11 Calculations (4) 13 Attacker (7) 14 Meadow (3)
16 Asian language (5) 18 Massage with one’s hands (5)
21 Strode (5)
22 Dreamer (5)
24 Frozen water (3)
25 Banqueted (7)
28 Yule (4)
30 Sea eagle (4)
31 Leak (4)
32 Elderly (4)
33 Raced (4)
DOWN
1 Deities (4)
2 Russian ruler (4)
3 Put back to zero (5)
4 Border (3)
5 European volcano (4)
7 Wall painting (5)
9 Of culture (6)
10 Opponent (5)
12 Slide (4)
15 Number (6)
17 Type of cipher (5)
19 Paradise (4)
20 Postpone (5)
23 Keepsake (5)
24 Ancient
Peruvian (4)
26 Snare (4)
27 Document (4)
29 Strange (3)